All Events in November 2017

art babes @ scma: Follow the Rainbow

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Museum of Art

10:15–11 AM

We're excited to announce this new program at the museum!

Join museum educator Gina Hall for an artful adventure for toddlers and their caregivers. Explore a different theme each session --- in the museum's galleries and around the Smith College campus. To accommodate a variety of busy schedules...

Each session will be offered twice—Thursday + Saturday—from 10:15-11 a.m.

art babes @ scma: Follow the Rainbow

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Museum of Art

10:15–11 AM

We're excited to announce this new program at the museum!

Join museum educator Gina Hall for an artful adventure for toddlers and their caregivers. Explore a different theme each session --- in the museum's galleries and around the Smith College campus. To accommodate a variety of busy schedules...

Each session will be offered twice—Thursday + Saturday—from 10:15-11 a.m.

Open House for K-12 Educators

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Museum of Art

12:30–3:30 PM

See what's new at your museum this fall! Check in at the welcome table in the museum lobby for information about current and upcoming exhibitions, guided or teacher-led visits, the teacher advisory group, educator-level membership, SCMA's bus subsidy program, and curriculum resources @ SCMA. Be the first to sign up for 2017–2018 teacher programs. Free tote bags for the first 75 teachers! Check out our "Freebie Table" with giveways beginning at 12:30 PM. Pop in and out of the afternoon's activities as you like, and be sure to make a stop at the Smith College Botanic Garden's K-12 Teacher Open House in the Lyman Plant House from 12–4pm.

1 PM Join a guided gallery conversation with museum educator Gina Hall in the exhibition A Dangerous Woman: The Art of Honoré Sharrer

2 PM Explore stations set up with self-guided materials and ideas for how to engage your students with art objects

3 PM M. Melissa Wolfe, Curator of American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, will lead a walk through of her exhibition A Dangerous Woman: The Art of Honoré Sharrer

Explore the work, life, and legacy of Honoré Sharrer with the artist's son Adam Zagorin, former senior correspondent for Time magazine; M. Melissa Wolfe, Curator of American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum and editor of Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer; and moderator Anna Lee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Art Dept., Smith College.

Cancelled: Gallery Conversation: Japanese Lacquer In the Collection of Dr. Elizabeth Force

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Museum of Art

2–3 PM

Yao Wu will introduce the various types of Japanese lacquerware featured in the exhibition and contextualize the objects in the history of 18th- and 19th-century Japanese lacquer production and consumption. Joannah Peterson will discuss aspects of the Heian-period (794-1185) literary tradition that informed the codification of natural motifs seen in the collection on view, including the rich symbolism offered by the narrative of The Tale of Genji.

Joannah Peterson teaches courses in Japanese language and premodern Japanese literature and culture at Smith College. Yao Wu is the Jane Chace Carroll Curator of Asian Art at the Smith College Museum of Art and curator of the exhibition, Japanese Lacquer In the Collection of Dr. Elizabeth Force

6 PM Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month

Museum Shop open + complimentary light refreshments

The Manchurian Candidate at Amherst Cinema

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Amherst Cinema

7 PM

Join SCMA at the Amherst Cinema!

As part of the related programming for the exhibition, A Dangerous Woman: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer, Amherst Cinema and SCMA have selected two films that compellingly explore many of the same themes that inspired Sharrer’s art work.

The second of these films, The Manchurian Candidate will be screened at Amherst Cinema on Sunday, November 12 at 7 PM, with an introduction by Jessica Nicoll, Director and Louise Ines Doyle ‘34 Chief Curator, Smith College Museum of Art, and Director, The Museums Concentration.

SCMA Student Event: Our Flight is Endless

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Museum of Art

6–7:30 PM

Come through and experience Latinx art and culture at SCMA with Latin American Students Association (LASO), in this special event by Smith students, for Smith students. Enjoy homemade Latinx appetizers, music, performances, and much more.